Devon O’Neil – POWDER Magazinehttps://www.powder.com
The Skier's MagazineTue, 20 Mar 2018 00:02:21 -0700en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.4The New and Improved Ski Shop - How three retailers evolved to stay busy in the digital agehttps://www.powder.com/stories/news/the-new-and-improved-ski-shop/
https://www.powder.com/stories/news/the-new-and-improved-ski-shop/#respondWed, 11 Jan 2017 12:00:28 +0000http://www.powder.com/?p=164349Ever since the traditional ski-shop business model--buy a lot of product and hope to sell it for twice as much--ran into the e-commerce meat grinder a decade ago, it has only gotten tougher for shops to exist, never mind thrive. According to SnowSports Industries America, consumers bought nearly $1 billion worth of snow sports equipment

]]>https://www.powder.com/stories/news/the-new-and-improved-ski-shop/feed/0The Boom and the Bust - Are skiers being priced out?https://www.powder.com/stories/opinion/the-boom-and-the-bust/
https://www.powder.com/stories/opinion/the-boom-and-the-bust/#respondTue, 14 Jul 2015 16:26:24 +0000http://www.powder.com/?p=130332This story originally published in the December 2014 issue of POWDER (43.4) OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS, a contrarian and divergent trend in ski-ticket prices has raised questions about the sport's future. Thanks to collective passes between formerly competing ski areas--and ski-area acquisitions by the likes of Vail Resorts--it has never been cheaper to buy